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Subject: Re: CAP Phase II

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:35:14 05/20/02

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On May 19, 2002 at 16:32:45, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On May 18, 2002 at 22:31:38, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>If you are a chess engine author and you would like to include your engine in
>>the project, you might look at allowing your engine to process standard EPD
>>records in a manner like that possible with Crafty.
>
>Wouldn't it be preferable, to write a WB/Xboard interface that does this?
>WB-engines post PVs, scores, best moves, etc. Is there anything missing? The
>interface could setup the position, and write the output in a style, you prefer.
>And it would all be automatically consistent between engines.
>
>If I do a wc epd* in Crafty 17.13 source directory, I get:
>
>   6282   15049  111832 epd.c
>    150     554    5476 epd.h
>    747    3223   20542 epddefs.h
>   3515   10075   71995 epdglue.c
>     37     181    1185 epdglue.h
>  10731   29082  211030 total
>
>Over 10000 lines. This is a lot of work for every engine programmer. Perhaps
>epd.c is generic, but already the glue code is very big.

We can actually use any Winboard engine (though extensive testing would be
needed to ensure reliable operations, since engines operate very differently).




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